Finding the nth Occurrence of a Match : preg_match « String « PHP






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Finding the nth Occurrence of a Match

 
<?php 
preg_match("/\d/", "1 and 2 and 3 and 4", $matches); 
echo "Value: " . $matches[0][2] . "\n"; 

?>








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